He or HE may refer to:

Language

He (pronoun) In Modern English Modern English (sometimes New English or NE (ME) as opposed to Middle English Middle English (abbreviated to ME) was a form of the English language spoken after the Norman conquest of England, Norman conquest (1066) un ...

, an English pronoun *

He (kana) へ, in hiragana Also , is a Japanese language, Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'', ''kanji'' and in some cases Latin script. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' li ...

, the romanization of the Japanese kana へ *

He (letter) He is the fifth letter Letter, letters, or literature may refer to: Characters typeface * Letter (alphabet) A letter is a segmental symbol A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing a ...

, the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets *

He (Cyrillic) Ge or Ghe (Г г; italics: ''Г'' ''г'') is a letter of the Cyrillic script , bg, кирилица , mk, кирилица , russian: кириллица , sr, ћирилица, uk, кирилиця , fam1 = Egyptian hieroglyphs , ...

, a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' in Ukrainian *

Hebrew language Hebrew (, , or ) is a of the . Historically, it is regarded as one of the spoken languages of the and their longest-surviving descendants: the and . It was largely preserved throughout history as the main of (post-) and . Hebrew is the ...

(ISO 639-1 code: he)

Places

He County He County or Hexian () is a county A county is a geographical region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary The ''Chambers Dictionary'' (''TCD'') was first published by William Chambers (publisher), Willi ...

, Anhui, China *

He River The Yellow River (Chinese: , Jin: uə xɔ Mandarin Mandarin may refer to: * Mandarin (bureaucrat), a bureaucrat of Imperial China (the original meaning of the word) ** by extension, any senior government bureaucrat A bureaucrat is ...

, or Hejiang (贺江), a tributary of the Xi River in Guangxi and Guangdong *

Hebei Hebei (; alternately Hopeh) is a coastal province A province is almost always an administrative division Administrative division, administrative unitArticle 3(1). , country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, f ...

, abbreviated as ''HE'', a province of China (Guobiao abbreviation HE) *

Hesse Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a state State may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''State Magazine'', a monthly magazine published by the U. ...

, abbreviated as ''HE'', a state of Germany

People

He (surname) He or Ho is the romanised Romanization or romanisation, in linguistics Linguistics is the science, scientific study of language. It encompasses the analysis of every aspect of language, as well as the methods for studying and modeling ...

, Chinese surname, sometimes transcribed Hé or Ho; includes a list of notable individuals so named *

Zheng He Zheng He (; 1371 – 1433 or 1435) was a Chinese mariner A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to ...

(1371–1433), Chinese admiral * He (和) and He (合), collectively known as 和合二仙 ('' He-He er xian'', "Two immortals He"), two Taoist immortals known as the "Immortals of Harmony and Unity" *

Immortal Woman He He Xiangu, birth name He Qiong, is a Chinese mythological figure and one of the Eight Immortals in the Taoist Taoism (), or Daoism (), is a philosophical tradition of Chinese origin which emphasizes living in harmony with the ''Tao'' (, o ...

, or He Xiangu, one of the Eight Immortals of Taoism

Arts, entertainment, and media

"He" (short story)

, a 1926 short story by H. P. Lovecraft * "He", a 1927 short story by

Katherine Anne Porter Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. Her 1962 novel '' Ship of Fools'' was the best-selling novel in America that year, but her sho ...

* ''He'' (film), a 2012 Irish film * "He" (song), a 1955 Christian song written by Jack Richards and Richard Mullan * ''He'', a novel by

John ConnollyJohn Connolly may refer to: *John Connolly (author) (born 1968), Irish author whose best-known novels revolve around former policeman Charlie Parker *John Connolly (bishop) (1750–1825), Irish-born second bishop of New York *John Connolly (blogger) ...

about Stan Laurel

Acronyms

His Eminence His Eminence (abbreviation H.Em.) is a style (manner of address), style of reference for high nobility, still in use in various religious contexts. Catholicism The style remains in use as the official style or standard form of address in refere ...

, a religious title * His

Excellency Excellency is an honorific An honorific is a title that conveys esteem, courtesy, or respect for position or rank when used in addressing or referring to a person. Sometimes, the term "honorific" is used in a more specific sense to refer to a ...

, a political title

Science

Hektoen enteric agar Hektoen enteric agar (HEK, HE or HEA) is a selective and differential agar primarily used to recover ''Salmonella ''Salmonella'' is a genus Genus /ˈdʒiː.nəs/ (plural genera /ˈdʒen.ər.ə/) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological clas ...

, used in microbiology to identify certain organisms *

Helium Helium (from el, ἥλιος, helios Helios; Homeric Greek: ), Latinized as Helius; Hyperion and Phaethon are also the names of his father and son respectively. often given the epithets Hyperion ("the one above") and Phaethon ("the shining" ...

Helium

, a chemical element with symbol He *

Hemagglutinin esterase Hemagglutinin esterase (HEs) is a glycoprotein Glycoproteins are protein Proteins are large s and s that comprise one or more long chains of . Proteins perform a vast array of functions within organisms, including , , , providing and ...

, a viral protein *

Hematoxylin and eosin stain Hematoxylin and eosin stain ( or haematoxylin and eosin stain or hematoxylin-eosin stain; often abbreviated as H&E stain or HE stain) is one of the principal tissue stains used in histology Histology, also known as microscopic anatomy or mi ...

, a popular staining method in histology *

Hepatic encephalopathy Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is an altered level of consciousness Altered may refer to: * ''Altered'' (film), a 2006 film * Altered (drag racing), a former drag racing class *Altered scale In jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in t ...

High explosive An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion An explosion is a rapid expansion in volume Volume is a expressing the of enclosed by a . ...

* Holocene Era or Human Era, the year count system of the

Holocene calendar The Holocene calendar, also known as the Holocene Era or Human Era (HE), is a year numbering system that adds exactly 10,000 years to the currently dominant ( AD/ BC or CE/BCE Common Era (CE) is one of the year notations used for the Gre ...

Holocene The Holocene ( ) is the current geological epoch In geochronology, an epoch is a subdivision of the geologic timescale that is longer than an age (geology), age but shorter than a period (geology), period. The current epoch is the Holocene E ...

Epoch, its rough equivalent *

Homomorphic encryption Homomorphic encryption is a form of encryption In cryptography Cryptography, or cryptology (from grc, , translit=kryptós "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or ''-logy, -logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice a ...

Other uses

Heathrow Express Heathrow Express is a high-frequency airport rail link An airport rail link is a service providing passenger rail transport Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transferring passengers and goods on wheeled ve ...

, an airport rail link between London Heathrow Airport and Paddington *

Heinkel Heinkel Flugzeugwerke () was a German aircraft manufacturing company founded by and named after Ernst Heinkel Dr. Ernst Heinkel (24 January 1888 – 30 January 1958) was a Germans, German aircraft designer, manufacturer, Wehrwirtschaftsführe ...

Flugzeugwerke (in aircraft model prefixes) *

Higher education Higher education is tertiary education Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the education Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge ...

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